The Wild Within

Ep. 12: Today, I am sitting down with yoga teacher and teacher trainer Hilary Atalina for an illuminating and expansive conversation on the true path of yoga. 

Yoga has been a cornerstone personally for me on my spiritual path, the first true pathway I experienced to embodiment and emotional healing. It is such a joy to connect with Hilary today, as we explore how yoga evolves from a physical practice into a lifelong journey of self-inquiry, presence, and purpose. 

Hilary shares her powerful story of leaving behind an unaligned corporate life, traveling through Central and South America, and ultimately finding her way to teaching and leading yoga teacher trainings.

Our conversation weaves through themes of transformation, grief, embodiment, leadership, and the courage to follow your inner calling. We'll dive into the modern yoga landscape, the importance of integration, and what it really means to “live your yoga.”

In this episode, we explore:

•  Hilary’s journey from corporate life to yoga teacher and trainer 
•  How travel and immersion in nature can catalyze deep personal transformation 
•  The role of grief, caregiving, and life transitions in awakening purpose 
•  Yoga as a path of presence, emotional awareness, and inner stillness 
•  The difference between modern yoga culture and traditional yogic teachings 
• Why yoga is ultimately a training of the mind, not just the body 
•  Why asana (the physical practice) is just the first doorway into deeper inner work 
•  How confidence and leadership are developed through teaching yoga 
•  The importance of being a lifelong student on the path of yoga 
•  How Hilary built her yoga school during the uncertainty of COVID 
•  What truly happens inside a yoga teacher training (beyond the surface) 
•  Why integration is the missing piece in many healing and growth modalities 
•  The role of curiosity as a foundation for empowerment and transformation 
•  How to know if you’re ready to take a yoga teacher training 
•  The power of community and shared experience in transformational containers 
•  Peru as a portal for healing, awakening, and connection to ancient wisdom 

If you are interested in joining us in Peru this October for an immersion into the art and practice of teaching yoga, you can learn more here:

https://rewildsoul.com/yoga-training-peru/

https://www.hillaryatalina.com/empower-200-hour-yoga-teacher-training 

Ep. 11: In this solo show, I'm sharing with you a  somatic and soul-led approach to gaining clarity when it's most needed. 

We explore:

• The nature of life's crossroads (hint: moments of feeling stuck are actually a huge catalyst for growth)
• What causes us to experience fog, indecision, paralysis, and disconnection from intuition during transitional moments in our lives
• Why clarity isn’t something you “figure out”, but something you create space for
• How our current collective moment of transition can amplify personal uncertainty (and why you’re not alone in this)
• The link between overthinking and nervous system stress, and why thinking harder often makes things murkier
• A simple framework of five pathways to clarity you can move through in any order, intuitively or step-by-step
• Somatic tools to create space for clarity in your body
• How regulation and inner safety often need to come before big decisions can feel clear
• How identity shifts, values, and “inner seasons” can explain why an old way of living no longer fits
• How subconscious beliefs and protective patterns can keep you stuck (while trying to keep you safe)
• 5 journaling prompts for uncovering hidden beliefs and subconscious blockages 
• Using conversation and reflection with trusted people as a mirror for insight (without outsourcing your truth)
• Tapping into energetic release for clarity 
• The power of surrender and letting go when you’ve done what you can, and the path still hasn’t revealed itself yet

Resources from today's episode: 

Journaling Guide for Clarity (coming soon - check back here shortly!!) 

EFT Practice

Self-Hypnosis Practice

Work with me:

www.rewildsoul.com

Episode 10: Today, we are exploring Human Design - a system of self-understanding and energetic mastery that, if you are a fellow deep diver into personal development and self-actualization, you absolutely MUST include in your toolkit! From my own experience, learning to live by my design has changed everything - it's an absolute game-changer when it comes to stepping into who you truly are and what's possible for your life. 

Astrid Heystee is a business & Human Design Coach (and my partner for our upcoming Embodiment & Human Design retreat in Portugal!) 

Today, we unpack her journey of how Human Design changed her life, catalyzing her to become an expert in the field and guide others to their own self-mastery through this extraordinary system of self-understanding. 

Understanding and learning to work with our Design can help us to come into greater alignment in our lives, utilizing our energy in the best possible way and cracking the code on what makes us tick - and how we can show up best in the world! If you're looking for greater ease and alignment in your relationships, your work, creative endeavors, purpose discovery, and connection to yourself - this episode is for you. 

We explore:

• What Human Design is, and how it functions as an energetic blueprint for how you’re wired to operate.
• Why burnout often happens when we try to live outside our natural energy design.
• How understanding your “ energy type” can help you stop forcing productivity and start working with your energy instead of against it.
• The difference between sustainable energy and borrowed energy, and how to maximize your own energy in your life. 
• Why Human Design isn’t about labeling yourself, but about recognizing patterns and reclaiming choice.
• How your defined and undefined centers influence where you feel confident… and where you absorb others.
• The body as the true decision-maker, learning to ask: Do I actually have energy for this?
• The “key and car” metaphor: how life shifts when you stop pushing uphill and start driving in flow.
• How honoring your body’s no can radically improve your relationships.
• Human Design as a language for improving relationships, communicating your needs and laying healthy boundaries. 
• A deeper look at people-pleasing - and how to use Human Design to unmesh from the emotions of others. 
• How awareness of your patterns gives you the power to change them.
• What happens energetically when you enter relationships, families, or group spaces.
• How retreats and immersive experiences amplify growth by shifting your energetic environment.
• Travel as a mirror for conditioning - and what it reveals about who you really are.
• Why embodiment (not just intellectual understanding) is where transformation actually happens.
• How small shifts in self-trust create more ease, vitality, and confidence in daily life.

Resources from Today's Episode:

Discover Your Human Design Chart (map your chart for free on her main page):
https://www.palmtreemoments.com/

Other Excellent Human Design Resources:

https://www.mybodygraph.com/

https://jovianarchive.com/

Embody Your Design: Retreat with us in Portugal (Sept 14-19, 2026): https://rewildsoul.com/portugal-retreat

(Note: I am offering podcast listeners an additional $111 off our Early Bird pricing 🦋)

Ep 9: As the New Year approaches, many of us are contemplating what intentions we're holding and what we're ready to release from the year past. Personally, I am a BIG fan of reflection and visioning, and would love to share with you about the process I like to use - and some key principles of why it works. 

In this episode, I share why most New Year's Resolutions don't work - and what we can do instead to ensure we manifest our desires and start moving towards our biggest visions and new versions of ourselves in an actionable and sustainable way. 

In this episode, we'll explore:

• Why most New Years resolutions don't work - (hint: most people don't understand what creates real change!) 
• Why real and lasting shift must be embodied (not just in your mind) 
• How to get your body and nervous system on board with your intentions
• Setting intentions at the level of IDENTITY, not behavior
• Reflection on the past year as a process of metabolizing your experiences
• A few potent practices I love to use as part of my reflection & integration
• How we create from the level of our subconscious mind (and why it's so important to take this perspective when setting intentions) 
• Key questions to ask as you process the year past and clear space for the new
• How to start excavating the belief systems holding you back from your biggest visions and dreams
• How to decide who you are becoming in the New Year
• Key questions to ask to determine your new operating system and way of being
• 3 areas to focus on when setting goals and visions for 2026

As part of this community, I'd love to share with you the Embodied Refleciton & Visioning workbook I've created for 2026:

Envision & Align 2026 - A Reflection & Visioning Workbook (PDF)

Wishing you a blessed New Year, and all that is to come!! 

Ep 8: Today, I'm sharing with you a bit of a personal story about a month I recently spent living on a rescue ranch in Baja Sur, Mexico immersing with horses, donkeys, the magical Baja desert, and more lessons than I expected to receive.

I went down with no real plan, said yes to the unknown, and found myself slowed way down… tending animals, stewarding land, and remembering parts of myself I didn’t realize had been waiting to come back online.

This is a reflection on horse medicine, donkey wisdom, nervous system regulation, leadership, presence, and the kind of healing that happens out on the land, in stillness, rhythm and relationship - rather than in a therapy room. (also: I personally find most healing and transformation to happen out in life and the world!) 

In this episode, I share:

• How periods of transition and uncertainty can become powerful portals for growth
• The role of land, rhythm, and simplicity in nervous system regulation
• My journey spending a month on a ranch, disconnected from the "default world" and returning to a deeper remembrance within
• What horses teach us about leadership, presence, and our own energy states
• Perspectives on purpose and stewardship in our lives
• What working with horses taught me about pressure and release (and where we apply too much pressure in our own lives)
• How working with horses mirrors our patterns in relationships and decision-making
• Horses as a powerful model for trust, attunement, and relational consent
• The gentle, grounding wisdom of donkeys (and why they might be some of the most underrated healers!!)
• How returning to ranch life became a form of my own inner child and soul retrieval
• Why healing doesn’t have to be heavy - it can be joyful, playful, and alive!
• The importance of community, creativity, and finding environments that support who we’re becoming

I share this episode from my heart as part story/reflection, and part love letter to the land, the animals here and their medicine, and the ways life is always available to reshape us when we listen to the inner call forth to the unknown. I hope you find resonance and that this sparks a curiosity or 

Ep 7: I am recording this episode as a soul-stream from the desert of Baja, reflecting on the endings, completions, and releases that I've been experiencing this year and that so many of us are moving through right now. As we step into the stillness of winter and prepare to close out 2025, we'll explore what it is to be in the tender liminal space as old identities and ways of being are shed away, how to navigate the process of release, and six tools to move through times of completion with grace, creating potent space for the next chapter to arise. If you’ve been feeling the old falling away in your life this year, you are definitely not alone - trust that it is paving the way for a personal and collective new beginning! 

In this episode we explore:

• The collective theme of release and completion as we close out 2025
• Why so many of us are shedding old identities, roles, and masks right now
• How the Year of the Snake relates to shedding skin and returning to the earth
• My personal season of endings, loss, and integration this year
• How trying to “build” in a year meant for integration creates struggle and burnout
• Moving from our default linear, productivity culture back into nature’s cyclical wisdom
• Winter as a powerful portal for stillness, rest, and energetic rest
• Six practices for moving through release and completion with more grace
• Letting go by just “5%” and taking one stone out of your metaphorical backpack
• Inviting more silence, stillness, and polarity between movement and rest
• Emotional processing tools like breathwork, shaking, sound, and somatic practices
• Finding a healthy balance between solitude and chosen community that supports your becoming
• Using writing, creativity, and non-verbal expression as soul work in the liminal space
• The power of ritual, ceremony, and nature as teachers of death, composting, and rebirth
• Rewilding as a return to innate nature, instinct, and authenticity beneath the programming
• A look ahead at the shift from a “9 year” of endings to a “1 year” and the Fire Horse energy of new beginnings

Ep 6: Today, I am joined by my dear friend and sister Kaleigh Smith for a rich conversation on creative liberation, retreats (...journeys!), and the healing power of our authentic expression - especially as women on a journey to reclaim our sovereignty and embodied power.  

Kaleigh is an expressive arts therapist in training, and together we will be co-hosting the Vibrant Heârt Creative Liberation & Expressive Arts Retreat for women this coming November 2-8 in beautiful Costa Rica. 

Together we explore:

• Expression as a soulful, embodied practice, not just an artistic one
• The universal human impulse to create - and how expression is actually our medicine
• Using expression to give voice to our inner parts - from trauma to leadership
• The necessity of slowness and softness in nurturing feminine creative energy
• The contrast between cerebral living and somatic, soul-led creation
• Different modalities of expression - cognitive, kinesthetic, sensory, symbolic - and how each can unlock deeper self-awareness.
• Kaleigh's journey of finding Expressive Arts Therapy as a soulful modality for her service in the world 
• Kristen’s journey of “rewilding” through plant medicine, psychedelics, and life in Peru
• Creativity beyond art: in relationships, rituals, home, and daily choices
• The role of environment, nature, and cultural influence on creativity and embodiment
• How overstimulation and digital overwhelm in our modern age hinder authentic expression - and what we can do about it

 
🌴🎨🌊 Costa Rica Creative Women's Retreat - Nov 2-8, 2025 (Apply below!)

Vibrant Heart - Creative Liberation Retreat for Women

Costa Rica Retreat Application

Learn more about my work and offerings here:

www.wildsoulmedicine.com

Ep. 5: Today we'll be exploring one of my favorite topics and one that has many facets (of which we will cover a few): our Purpose and Dharma. 

A few themes we explore in this episode:

• Why is purpose discovery and inquiry so important? 
• What is meant by "Dharma" in the yogic tradition
• The 3 components of Dharma, and how we can start to uncover our own
• Why it's important to understand our true nature
• Prompts and questions to start unraveling your personal dharma
• Why finding our purpose often involves letting go the idea of purpose
• Hidden places your purpose/dharma may be hiding
• The Ikigai framework for discovering our reason for being
• Tim Kelley's True Purpose model

Resources from this Episode:

Purpose Discovery Reflections (PDF)

True Purpose - Tim Kelley

 
🌴🎨🌊 Costa Rica Creative Women's Retreat - Nov 2-8, 2025

www.wildsoulmedicine.com/costa-rica-retreat

Learn more about my work and offerings here:

www.wildsoulmedicine.com

Connect with me on Facebook, Youtube, and Instagram.

If you'd like to get in touch with me directly, you can send me an email at
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Ep. 4: Today, I'm returning from the podcast void (!!) with a personal update from Peru, along with some of the top lessons life has been delivering here - and some of my greatest teachers in my five years living in the Sacred Valley. 

I am so grateful for those of you along with me here on this podcasting journey, and am excited for the new evolutions in the vision and mission of The Wild Within. I'll be publishing weekly episodes and would love to have you along for the explorations! 

A few themes we explore in this episode:

• Highlights from my personal journey over the past year
• Learning to embrace grief and paradox
• Working with sacred plant medicines in a mindful and balanced way
• Life and relationships as a mirror for our shadows and unmet parts
• The power of community
• My greatest teachers here in Peru
• ..... and more stream-of-consciousness thoughts from yours truly :) 

Learn more about my work and offerings here:

www.wildsoulmedicine.com
 
Costa Rica Retreat - Nov 2-8, 2025

www.wildsoulmedicine.com/costa-rica-retreat


Connect with me on Facebook, Youtube, and Instagram.

If you'd like to get in touch with me directly, you can send me an email at
[email protected]